JUNIOR HOMEMAKERS

Evening Star, Issue 22350, 28 May 1936, Page 10

JUNIOR HOMEMAKERS

CLUB DELEGATES’ RALLY Visiting delegates from the Junior Homemakers’ clubs of Otago and Southland, who are at present in Dunedin for the purpose of undergoing an educational course arranged by the Association of Country Education, were addressed this morning at the Homo Science School on the subject of books by Mr W. J. Harris (University librarian). The delegates were then divided into groups, and the remainder of the morning syllabus consisted of a visit to the Museum, a cooking demonstration by Miss Crowe (representing the staff of the Association of Country Education), and & lecture by Miss Macmillan on kitchen planning and equipment. The course was concluded this afternoon. In the course of an enlightening talk on books Mr Harris said that the pleasures of reading not only included the imparting of but also exercising of the mind, and pointed out that just°as much information could be gleaned from novels as from history books, for they represented vivid phases of life. The test of the quality of a novel was whether it satisfied that demand. If not, it was a poor book. The speaker dealt at length with New Zealand literature and its great importance as a means of understanding the modern economic, historical, and social position of the Dominion, and commended to his listeners a list of informative books, including Pember Peeve’s ‘ Long White-. Cloud,’ .1. Cowan’s books on the Maori race, Dr Elder’s various publications, works by Nellie Scanlan and J. Mander, Rosemary Reese’s imaginative novels, and J K 4, Lee’s f Children of the Root,*